Power Hour – Housing and Homelessness in the Downtown Eastside
Until I moved to the DTES, I was unfamiliar with the crisis of homelessness and poverty. There are approximately…
Head Tax Families Society releases their historic commemorative plaque: By the…
Oppenheimer Park, March 21 2013
A contingent of directors and members of the Head Tax Families Society of…
DTES Historic Plaque Gone Missing
A historical plaque that was supposed to have been put on a light pole near the Patricia Hotel at Dunlevy and…
Oppenheimer Park Film Program
Every Tuesday at 2pm, in the field house of the Oppenheimer Park, documentary and experimental films are screened,…
Idle No More – A radical two-spirited Indigenous view
By Tami Starlight – Cree (Pegius Nation)
Written on unceded and occupied Coast Salish territory.
The…
Gentrification and Hipsters
You’ve seen them: the hipsters, walking down our streets and having expensive fancy coffees at the gentrifying…
For the Love of Our Community
I’m from Morson, Ontario, near Minnesota close to the Manitoba border. I’m from the Ojibway Nation from Big…
Tenant Power and Rent Control
The Social Housing Coalition BC is demanding that the province outlaw renovictions and slumlording…
Myths and Facts About the Downtown Eastside and Pidgin
Myth: Diners will learn more about the DTES by dining in fancy restaurants that the locals can’t afford.
Fact:…
Hunger Strike for Social Housing and Against Gentrification
By Tami Starlight (Cree-Peguis Nation) Written on unceded and occupied Coast Salish Territory
“I'm prepared…